Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Zambia, Munda Wanga

Day 313.
Written in Zambia, Lusaka.

Munda Wanga is Wildlife Sanctuary, Botanical Gardens, Educational Centre and much more - as the label below informs us. It is located 15 kilometers south of Lusaka just by the big road.

Basically, the Botanical Gardens and the Zoo, but Zoo not in the usual sense, but for this kind of animals that are confiscated from poachers and also for injured animals and birds to be healed before the release to freedom.

Both places can be visited by the same ticket. The ticket cost 25,000 kwatshats or 5 USD. And yet - there is no special price for local residents and a different price for tourists. All are equal. During half a day I saw there probably 5 visitors.

Crocodiles behind one-meter stone wall.

One more

Behind the stone wall there were rabbits and guinea pigs.

And the third stone yard was inhabited by Mongoose. There were three of them all together, but as two of them were in constant motion, so didn`t succeed to have them all in one picture. This was a more peaceful one.

Two extremely friendly warthogs. As soon as they noticed people moving around, they came to the fence to see better. And no wonder, because these two had grown up with people.

Black Kite with wing injuries.

And his story.

Waterbuck. The oldest inhabitant of Munda Wanga, they have been here since the opening of the sanctuary in 1970.

An Ostrich.

And yet it was unusual to see a camel in this country, but these ones were actually a gift from the Libyan President to the Zambian President .

A lion further away.

And now - the Botanical Garden.

The way back through downtown of Lusaka - Cairo Road.
Now it is raining again.